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A library of email marketing resources.

We wanted to offer you a dedicated page on our site to find tools, blogs, personalities, useful resources in email marketing. And we won't skimp! Get ready to scroll, and not know where to click! (This list is not exhaustive, and may change. Come back regularly to find out what's new!)

Accessibility

Accessible email documentation

A list of great articles, tools, presentations and resources on accessibility in general and for email specifically.

Accessibility

Accessible-email.org

It couldn't be simpler: You copy and paste your HTML code, and you have the necessary recommendations to improve the accessibility of your campaign. It's time to get started!

Accessibility

Coding Accessible Emails

Don't know how to code accessible emails? ActionRocket comes to your rescue with a detailed step-by-step guide to optimizing your code!

Accessibility

Contrast Checker

You fill in your foreground color (text). Then your background color. And you get a note. It's as simple as that.

Accessibility

Quick Guide to Accessible Email

Recommendations, relevant, by chapter (structure, content, text, color...) to improve and optimize the accessibility of your emails.

Directories

Emailresourc.es

Resources for every step of an email marketer's work!

Directories

EmailTribe.io

More than 120 quality resources listed on this site dedicated to email marketing... We love it.

Directories

The Better Email

This is my guide, this is my shepherd's star! The resource list organized by Jason Rodriguez himself!

BATs

The checklist for your email marketing campaigns

With our checklist, you make sure to check the different elements that will allow you to send a "bullet proof" emailing campaign.

BATs

PutsMail

A practical and efficient tool, developed by Litmus, to quickly send a Good To Go from your email campaign to the address of your choice.

Blogs

Actito

Actito is the agile activation platform that allows any marketer to deploy high-performance data-driven marketing campaigns, without any technical knowledge, in complete autonomy.

Blogs

Active Trail

Active Trail, email marketing platform for sending newsletters, SMS, marketing automation and transactional emails gives you tips to use the tool in the most efficient way, but also talks about emailing in a more global way.

Blogs

Arobase

Arobase.org is since 1997 a site entirely dedicated to email. The site shares its passion for email, news, tips and analysis.

Blogs

Badsender - The Blog

Probably the best of all, in all modesty of course.

Blogs

Blocks Edit Blog

Imagine Badsender's blog but in the US... And more emailing code oriented. And you get Blocks Edit.

Blogs

Cheetah Digital

Cheetah Digital is a global reference in information processing. The blog deals with emailing in general.

Blogs

Consonaut

Consonaute is Bruno Fridlansky's blog, he exposes his passion for the web by analyzing the news of emailing and social networks.

Blogs

Courtney Fantinato

No articles published since 2017. But still a valuable asset for understanding DPI or background images.

Blogs

Datananas

Datananas is an Outbound Sales software. On its blog, Datananas talks about strategy around emailing: prospecting strategy, copywriting...

Blogs

Digitaleo

Digitaleo is a SaaS solution for managing customer communications by sending marketing campaigns. On its blog, customer relationship specialists talk about emailing and sms marketing news.

Blogs

Dolist

Dolist.net is one of the important actors of email marketing in France. On its blog, the email sending platform reviews the news of the sector, exposes customer cases...

Blogs

Email Marketing Rules

The blog of Chad White, the leading expert on international email marketing.

Blogs

Email Way

Email Way is the blog of Jérôme Gays, consultant specialized in email deliverability at DeliverNow. Jérôme talks about the latest news about deliverability, Signal Spam...

Blogs

Emailing.biz

The blog has changed its style (no more superheroes, snif snif...) but the content is still good! Discover the Sarbacane blog!

Blogs

Flexmail

Flexmail is an online email marketing platform. Several topics around emailing are discussed in their blog: Deliverability, strategy, legislation...

Blogs

FQDN

FQDN is a blog hyper specialized in the field of email deliverability, we talk about Spam, MTA, DKIM, DMARC. A blog to follow if you want to be interested in this essential discipline that is deliverability.

Blogs

Friends of email

A blog on email marketing for the Spanish community is rare enough to be mentioned!

Blogs

Hteumeuleu

Here we are on pure and hard technique, #codeemailing at its highest level. It is the Usain Bolt of HTML for email, the Teddy Riner of CSS for email...

Blogs

Hillel Berg's Blog

Interviewing some of the biggest names in email marketing in the world, Hillel provides a number of podcasts and comprehensive articles.

Blogs

The 24 days of email

Well ok, we are not modest: the 24 days of email is a project carried by Badsender, but which solicits volunteer authors for a month of December filled with small gifts, every day, and every year (since 2019).

Blogs

Mailjet

Mailjet is the French start-up that is rising in the emailing sector. And its blog lets you live the evolution of the platform from the inside: new features, conferences...

Blogs

Markentive

The Markentive Agency blog is a leading Inbound Marketing and Marketing Automation Blog.

Blogs

Megbosh.com

When an internationally renowned email integrator has a website and a blog, we obviously share!

Blogs

Pignon sur Mail

Pignon sur mail is certainly the reference of emailing blogs on the French web. Bruno Florence gives us his advice and shares with us his enormous knowledge in emailing.

Blogs

Plezi

Plezi's Marketing Automation blog is for marketers, sales managers and agencies who want to increase their marketing ROI.

Blogs

Salesforce

On its blog, Salesforce provides an update on all the latest customer relationship news: CRM, marketing, data analysis...

Blogs

Sarbacane

The blog of Sarbacane, emailing platform for SMEs, gives you tips and tricks to use the tool in the most efficient way, but also talks about emailing in a global way.

Blogs

Sendethic

We appreciate their values, we appreciate Vincent Fournout and Guillaume Le Friant, we simply love their blog!

Blogs

Sendinblue

You can't miss Sendiblue's blog when talking about email marketing: strategy, scenarios, tips. You are bound to learn something!

Blogs

Snipemail

Charles Boone's emailing blog has been around since 2006! Six years of good and loyal service in the name of quality and good emailing practices. And even if the publications are not regular, it is a reference to have on hand.

Blogs

StyleCampaign

When someone talks about SVG, dynamic countdowns, or virtual reality in an email, you know you're on a quality blog...

Blogs

Vade Secure

Vad Secure's R&D experts write articles about email security (spam, phishing and malware).

Code

Learn to code an email

It's written by Nicole Merlin, the goddess of HTML integration for email. So we can go with our eyes closed!

Code

Bare Bones

Code tutorials, design tutorials and thoughts on email development, by Niven Ranchod.

Code

Can I Email

How to know the support of an HTML tag or a CSS property according to the mail clients? Well, with this tool. That's it. End of the discussion.

Code

Special characters by jchr.be

A "conversion" of special characters organized in tables, and very complete! Useful for encoding an unbreakable hyphen, for example.

Code

Cerberus

Templates, components, best practices... Only on the email code! We love it!

Code

Understanding the Hybrid/Fluid technique

What to do when media queries are not supported and how to display a mobile version of the email? By using the Hybrid/Fluid technique. And Nicole Merlin explains it to you!

Code

Diffchecker

Very useful to find code differences between two files... And then, debugging.

Code

Email Comb

Nothing like this to clean up the HTML code of your email. You copy and paste, and hop! The tool tells you which "class" or "id" is useless... It's simple, it's clean.

Code

Email CSS Resets

A Github repository by Jay Oram to, like Email Normalize, apply a CSS reset / normalization on your HTML code elements and start on a good basis...

Code

Email Normalize

Email clients and email software use default styles on HTML. Email Normalize allows you to set up a kind of CSS "reset" with a simple copy and paste to normalize your rendering?

Code

Email Platform Status

Another great job by super Rémi ! A site that goes through all Really Good Emails to count the use of some HTML and CSS features.

Code

FreeFormatter

For those who hate badly indented HTML files or indented files with spaces, this tool is for you!

Code

Manage your Call to Action

Can we make a button fully clickable? What solutions are available to you? Litmus makes the point.

Code

Github of Hteumeuleu

All the most common problems are listed and, if possible, solved in this essential Github!

Code

Goodemailcode

When Mark Robbins, email integrator before God, shares perfect pieces of code with you... What more could you ask for?

Code

Guide: Dark Mode and email

If Dark mode and email marketing is a complex and obscure subject for you... #poinpoinpoin Ok, we go out...

Code

How to fix Outlook Dark Mode Problems

Nicole Merlin's tutorials to help the #emailgeeks community are countless. This one is just a nugget!

Code

How to target email clients

Do you want to apply a particular style only on Yahoo? Or on Orange? This superb site developed by Dylan Smith will be your best ally...

Code

Html Arrows

A delightful reference for HTML symbols, entities and ASCII character codes (I'm not the one saying it, it's the literal translation!)

Code

Html Crush

Are you afraid of the 102kb limit imposed by Gmail? This tool may help you save a few kilobytes by removing indentation and line breaks (we're not saying it's good, mind you!)

Code

Htmlemailcheck

How to apply a CSS property only on Outlook? How to target Yahoo! Mail? All the answers are here.

Code

ImageOptim

A new tool to optimize the weight of your images while maintaining optimal quality!

Code

White Paper: Coding in HTML for email

Designed by Badsender as a reference guide, the 104 pages of this white paper explain all the subtleties of html email development.

Code

Understanding Gmail better

What should I know about Gmail? What are its main problems with HTML code? EmailOnAcid gives you its secrets.

Code

Nu Html Checker

To check an HTML file, filter errors, avoid duplicate attributes or tag closing bugs. Super practical!

Code

Progressive Enhancement Calculator

Know what innovations and interactions will be supported in your email code with this great tool developed by Parcel.

Code

HTML and CSS support

Before CanIEmail, there was the ultimate guide to HTML tags and attributes and CSS properties support by Campaign Monitor. Let's not forget it.

Code

Tabifier

The opposite of Html Crush: the ability to indent and arrange HTML code. That's nice!

Code

What does it paste

A tool created by Taxiforemail to "clean" an HTML code recovered from an email program of its unwanted tags.

Contents

White Paper: Customize your marketing strategy with dynamic content

Badsender publishes and puts at your disposal a new White Paper on marketing strategy & dynamic content to allow you, via 7 simple solutions, to multiply your conversions.

Contents

Peakinbox

The perfect tool to easily set up annotations on Gmail, to analyze performance and improve it!

Contents

Sensitive Subjects

You think you've found the ideal object for your email campaign? A piece of advice: test its rendering on different media, to avoid unpleasant surprises...

Definitions

Marketing Definitions

The illustrated encyclopedia of marketing! So yes, it's not limited to email marketing. But as many definitions specific to emailing are there... Well... We will not quibble.

Definitions

Email Production Glossary

A very complete glossary on many terms used in the world of email marketing. A must have for beginners!

Definitions

Glossary Emailing

If you don't know what an A/B test, an alternative text, or a preheader is, this glossary is for you.

Definitions

The Email Marketing Glossary

It's done by Jason Rodriguez. Here we go. 6-0, 6-0. Checkmate.

Deliverability

Kickbox

How to optimize your deliverability? By ensuring, among other things, the email addresses of your recipients...

Deliverability

List of popular domains

A list of the most popular domains in France... Or elsewhere !

Deliverability

White Paper: Understanding Deliverability

Find out how essential the fight against spam is to understand the main principles of deliverability.

Deliverability

White Paper: Deploying DMARC

This white paper will guide you through the DMARC deployment process.

Deliverability

Mailtrap.io

Test the deliverability of your email campaign and easily save your test data!

Deliverability

Scan My Email

A wonderful tool developed by Simon Bressier from SendinBlue that will allow you to check the correct configuration of your email sender domain and your email server!

Deliverability

Shakelist

Check and clean your email lists in a few clicks with this brand new tool created by Oxemis!

Deliverability

Which Gmail Tab?

In which Gmail tab will your campaign be filed? Main? Social? Promotions? Updates? Forums?

Design

Beautiful Email Newsletters

There is some good. There is some not so good. In short, there is something for everyone, as you can see!

Design

Bettr.email

You can never have enough email examples to find inspiration. YET!

Design

Canva

Sleek newsletter or email designs for you, all done, all fresh, all beautiful!

Design

Dark Mode Magic

Hard to imagine what your email model will look like in Dark Mode, isn't it? Especially before the development stage... Well, not anymore !

Design

DataNewsletters

Access a directory of French newsletters, for your competitive intelligence!

Design

Email Love

You'll be amazed with this subjective survey of perfect emailing designs!

Design

Emailify

A "graphic" Builder available on Figma that will allow you to quickly design emails thanks to a system of drag&drop blocks. And a feature to export HTML code... But shhh! No need to say too much!

Design

Ezgif

Handling animated gifs, even creating them... That's already misery in itself. With Ezgif (pronounced Easy Gif), it's much, much easier!

Design

Figma

Is there anything better than Figma for email layout? Don't look, it's a rhetorical question...

Design

Guide : Design System Email

To understand everything about Design System Email: its usefulness, its operation, its use... Only one guide: ours!

Design

Health icons

Syringe, blood drop, skeleton, gloves... Icons for your open source "health" (or serial killer) creations!

Design

Icons8

But what a pleasure to have access to quality illustrations, freely, for free... This bank of illustrations is a treasure. Simply.

Design

Thomas' Pinterest

Emails that I liked, that I would like to share with you. You can do what you want with them.

Design

Mailcharts

To show your customers or prospects what is being done in their field of activity... Or to regularly monitor the latest design trends in emailing.

Design

Milled

Let's say you want to create an email. Let's say you're a design whiz. Let's say you lack inspiration. Let's say there is Milled...

Design

Pinterest

Did you seriously think that you could only find tutorials on how to build a garden furniture with pallets?

Design

Placeholder

To get images quickly by just filling in the width and height in a url... Ultra-practical!

Design

ReallyGoodEmails

Looking for inspiration? Discover innovative emails, which slam, and find the taste and desire of Design.

Design

Remix icon

Well, then you have the choice among 2271 free and open source icons. Normally, you should find what you were looking for!

Design

Removebg

Not comfortable with Photoshop to divert a product? Are you afraid of the "Magic Wand" tool? Removebg takes care of everything, for free.

Design

Squoosh

To reduce the weight of an image (JPEG, GIF or PNG), there is nothing like a visit to Squoosh. With an intuitive interface and a simple drag&drop, optimize the weight of your visuals.

Design

Subtle Patterns

You like patterns and textures? You will be served ! A superb bank of "Patterns" to use as background-image with a possible repetition... Magic!

Design

The Branding Style Guidelines Archive

My God... Imagine real graphic charts, for famous brands, available for free... A dream, right? No...

Design

Themeforest

Ok, there is a choice... Ok it's beautiful and it does the job... But it will never be as beautiful as what we can do in email design at Badsender (it was the self-promotion moment).

Design

Unsplash

High quality photos, made by amateurs / professionals, free of rights and made for commercial use. For free. What more can you ask for?

Design

Zeroheight

To import your Figma components, insert your code pieces, document with do's and don'ts... In short, to make a REAL emailing design system !

Ecology

Email Expiration Date

What if we automatically deleted billions of emails stored unnecessarily to reduce the carbon footprint of the email marketing industry? A dream, made in Badsender!

Ecology

The eco-design guide for digital services

It's not only focused on email, but there are a lot of tips that can still be applied to it! Thank you Dominique Vrignaud for this great discovery!

Email editor

Chamaileon

A very complete tool, which will allow you to save your own modules, to automatically detect HTML text as editable... And so many great features!

Email editor

The Boss

An email builder that is good. Who made it? We did! And we are so proud of it... We love our Boss!

Email editor

Stripo

Very attractive prices for this builder or email editor! Let's start designing campaigns by the bucketload!

Publishers

Adobe Dreamweaver

The most famous software to code emails in HTML! Automatic indentation, syntax highlighting, autocompletion... A state-of-the-art software!

Publishers

CodePen

To edit HTML code and have a rendering window right next to it... But also to share your code, your findings, innovations... CodePen!

Publishers

Parcel

You don't have an HTML code editor? Take advantage of Parcel, a solution developed by Avi Goldman, and build your emails quickly!

Publishers

Snippet Generator

To easily create snippets on VSCode (and Sublime Text and Atom) without having to know the specific code.

Publishers

Sublime Text

If you didn't know yet, Sublime Text is a software that will offer you many little features that will save you a lot of time!

Email preview

EmailonAcid

Email preview tests without counting. Dozens and dozens of email clients and support / resolutions / systems / browsers discussed. A gem!

Email preview

Litmus

The most popular platform for email rendering. And, on top of that, a handy Email Builder with instant display of the changes made.

Events

Complete calendar of emailing events

Find wherever you are the webinars, live and replays of Badsender on the full topics of email marketing!

Events

CSA Email Summit

International experts support marketers and technical experts through a wide range of contributions on the topic of email. Is it fuzzy? It's Google Translate.

Events

Email Innovations Summit

Developed in collaboration with the members of Only Influencers, the Email Innovations Summit is a highly anticipated conference for email marketers.

Events

EMDay

The must-attend email marketing event in France. 2 days (most of the time) dedicated to email marketing with the best French experts.

Forums

Email Markup Consortium

A Consortium to harmonize a little more our techniques in email marketing! I SAY YES, YES, YES!

Forums

Slack Emailgeeks

The largest gathering of emailing professionals, enthusiasts and geeks. You'll find advice on design, code, strategy, deliverability... Everything!

Forums

Women of Email

For women. For geek girls. For email marketing. For women, email marketing geeks!

Generators

Gmail Annotations

How can you take advantage of Gmail annotations to help your campaigns optimize their open rate? It's easy! With the Freshinbox generator, of course!

Generators

Backgrounds.cm

Wanting to put background images in an email is fine. Knowing how to do it is something else. With Campaign Monitor's generator, no more worries.

Generators

Buttons.cm

And how do you make buttons fully clickable in an email? And how do you make the rounded corners appear in Outlook too? Answer: buttons.cm

Generators

Carousel by Freshinbox

Want to put a carousel in your email? You are right. But you don't know how to do it? Freshinbox has the solution.

Generators

Countdowns

What counts is not the count, but the one who tells the tale! (Raymond Devos) Countdowns for your emails, in spades!

Generators

Dark Mode for Email Simulator

What will my email look like if Dark Mode is enabled? This is the question you should ask yourself...

Generators

Emailcharacters

Great Chrome extension to make sure your objects and preheaders are rendered on email clients.

Generators

Campaign Monitor Inliner

You have set up an email with your styles in the and not inline? Don't panic, there's the Campaign Monitor inliner.

Generators

Inliner by Litmus

How to automate the inline setting of your CSS styles? With the Litmus / Putsmail tool, of course!

Generators

Litmus : Gmail's Promotions tab

It is almost the same generator as the one proposed by Freshinbox. But this one is made by Litmus. That's it.

Generators

Rollover on image

Hover over an image, and another visual appears? It's possible, and fast with the Freshinbox generator !

Interaction

Developer Network by Verizon Media

Discover the tools made available by Yahoo! to enrich your emails: AMP, Promotions, Schema, BIMI... What a great world!

Jobs

Coder.com

Because we need French platforms too (thanks Jean-Michel for the message ;)) ! And Codeur.com proposes to list missions on the "emailing" category. To discover, because there are a lot of missions for freelancers !

Jobs

emailDevResumes

To write killer email developer resumes!

Jobs

Emailjobs.io

Ahhhh if only job hunting could be that easy for everyone: updated, detailed jobs, all over the world... We have so much to choose from!

Jobs

Graphic designer.com

Because there is not only code in email marketing, there is also design! And for that, there is a demand on Graphiste.com! Go go go !

Jobs

Keljob

Do we really need to introduce Keljob? No... Definitely not.

Jobs

Linkedin

Yes, because in fact, Linkedin is also made for that: to make your professional profile evolve, to find new opportunities... So we've made it easy for you by typing the search "email". All you have to do is click on the button below.

Jobs

Monster

Finally all the job search platforms can do the trick, right? Just type in a query... And hop! A lot of results !

Models

Emailloot

Sweaters, t-shirts, mugs, stickers, for the #emailgeeks!

Models

Htmlemail.io

Emailing templates, already coded, clean, beautiful. Why deprive yourself?

Models

Maizzle

A framework developed by Cosmin Popovici to quickly prototype HTML emails.

Models

MJML

A framework now recognized internationally, developed by Mailjet, to develop responsive emails with fingers in the nose!

Models

ZURB Foundation

It sounds like the name of the villain in the 5th element and yet : It's always helpful to have multiple email code templates available!

Newsletters

...it depends

Megan Boshuyzen shares her thoughts on email design, development and strategy!

Newsletters

Action Rocket

The Action Rocket newsletter, always relevant, always innovative. A weekly slap in the face of email marketing.

Newsletters

All Things Email

It comes out every Friday, it is clear, concise and of high quality... It is of course the Let's Talk StrategyTM newsletter.

Newsletters

Newsletter of Badsender

If you are not subscribed, it's really time to do something about it. If only because you have discovered this list of resources and if, on occasion, other nuggets like this one are released, you would like to be informed...

Newsletters

Cab for Email

How can you not keep up with brand and email marketing news? No, it's not possible... Subscribe!

Newsletters

Ted Goas

A monthly review of design and email news, how can you resist?

Routing

Actito

To create emailing campaigns, but not only! And also because their team is really nice...

Routing

Emarsys

Automation, Artificial Intelligence, multi-channel communication... Interesting...

Routing

ESP HTML bugs

A Github that lists the most common problems with the interpretation of HTML and CSS code by routing platforms. Made by Badsender.

Routing

Hubspot

A CRM platform that claims to have more than 113,000 customers, that's a lot of weight!

Routing

Klaviyo

And guess what? We have an expert of this solution at Badsender ;)

Routing

White paper: Choosing a campaign management tool

We help you to understand the terminologies and to detect where your needs lie.

Routing

Mailchimp

Is it still necessary to introduce the most famous emailing platform? No. No, I don't think so...

Routing

Mailjet

Le Printemps, Doctolib, DHL, Nestlé, Galeries Lafayette... With such a repertoire of clients, how can you not be captivated?

Routing

Oximailing

A human-sized team, premises in the North of France, an adorable support, advice galore... How can you not like them?

Routing

Sarbacane

The must-have French emailing software! But did you know that you can also manage your SMS Marketing and Marketing Automation campaigns?

Routing

Sendethic

"Achieve sustainable success in marketing and communication by combining ethics and performance." Well said!

Routing

Sendinblue

If you want to unleash your potential, you'll find all the marketing and sales tools to get your business off the ground!

Routing

Sparkpost

One of the biggest emailing and deliverability platforms in the world!

Statistics

Email Calculator

Do you have numbers? Do you have email campaigns? You have dough and sugar? Then you enter your numbers (opens, clicks, desabo...) and you have statistics!

Statistics

Email Client Market Share

The best way to know (roughly) the behavior of recipients of email campaigns and their consultation habits.

Statistics

Email geeks - Salaries

How can you best estimate the salary you can expect in your country and region? This questionnaire has gathered the answers of more than 530 #emailgeeks, to help you find out.

Statistics

Email is not dead

Email is not dead. No, it's not! It changes, it mutates. Stats, numbers, galore! Enjoy!

Statistics

Emailgeeks.io

Looking for a job related to email marketing in your country? This platform gathers a good part of the available jobs !

Statistics

White Paper Analyzing Statistics

Badsender publishes a white paper to guide you in setting up 10 key reports that will help you really measure your emailing strategy.

Statistics

Mailchimp: Comparison and statistics of email marketing by sector

Compare the performance of your emails (unique open rate, click rate and bounce rate) with those of Mailchimp users.

Statistics

ROI Calculator

ROI is life! It's the return on investment! And you don't know how to calculate it? It's easy with this tool!

Videos and podcasts

Youtube channel of Badsender

A channel to follow, to find our lives on so many different and interesting subjects! With more and more passionate guests!

Videos and podcasts

Humans of Email

Hosted by Jen Capstraw and Natalie Jackson, these podcasts are just little nuggets you'll enjoy.

Videos and podcasts

Ivan Hurt

Ivan Hurt's Youtube channel, where he shares his thoughts on his career as an email developer.

Videos and podcasts

Parcel Unpacked 2022

All replays from the 2022 Parcel Unpacked session. After five minutes, you'll already have learned one magic trick. My hand to cut.

Videos and podcasts

Podcasts of Badsender

You don't know what to listen to while working ? Well, there are our podcasts, my friend! It always makes a background noise...